Cellphone Videos Hope to Change Habits

By Nicole Wallace

A Rutgers University professor thinks that cellphone soap operas could be a powerful tool to encourage young minority women to take steps to protect themselves from HIV infection.

The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, in Millburn, gave Rachel Jones a $154,400 grant to create 12 videos that dramatize the relationship dynamics that often make it difficult for young women to insist that their partners use a condom or to ask them to get tested for AIDS; the videos also show how women